I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
chance meeting/encounter/event etc
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A chance meeting with a journalist changed everything.
encounter an obstacle (= find that there is an obstacle )
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People should not encounter obstacles because of their age, sex, race, or religion.
encounter opposition (= find that there is opposition )
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The police encountered little opposition, and restored order within the hour.
encounter/experience a problem
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You shouldn’t encounter any further problems.
experience/encounter difficulties formal (= have difficulties )
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Graduates often experience considerable difficulties in getting their first job.
experience/encounter prejudice
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Students with learning difficulties often encounter prejudice.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
first
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I first encountered the term in the 80s, when it was used to describe computing modules found in many applications.
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I first encountered sushi in an expensive specialist restaurant.
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He had first encountered it in darkness, with people passing in and out of it.
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I first encountered them when I moved to Washington from West Virginia in 1961.
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It was the reporters' first encounter with Bradlee on a Watergate story.
frequently
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The salaried partner is frequently encountered in modern solicitors' firms.
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This observation follows a pattern frequently encountered in research in this area.
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It also covers a selection of other contract clauses frequently encountered in many types of commercial agreement, for example confidentiality clauses.
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Celibacy, or Bramacharya, is encountered frequently in Hindu lore and life.
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Organic farming frequently encounters such philosophical problems.
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The objections to truth-telling we most frequently encounter fall into four general categories.
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This size is frequently encountered in contemporary Anatolian village rugs.
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She said the most frequently encountered problem in meeting the franchise specification was the experience requirement for supervising non-qualified staff.
never
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It was, she considered, time Sarah was married, but she never encountered anyone suitable!
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I have never encountered a more honorable man.
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I have never encountered a better-run theatre.
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The only criticism was one he had never encountered before: He was too restrained.
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There was a grotesque inventiveness, a deliberate eccentricity in the idea of the cuckoo clock that Melanie had never encountered .
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Despite the absence of an image-forming device, I guessed the lobes corresponded to eyes of a sort never encountered before.
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He was very good-looking, very charming, and had a kind of city slickness she'd never encountered before.
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The 4-year-old gelding had never encountered a sloppy track before, but took to it immediately.
often
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At present, one often encounters the argument that transformations in the economy are an emancipatory force for workers.
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We will not consider any more complex tones, since these are not often encountered and are of little importance.
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And I would always prefer that to the smooth and empty professionalism one so often encounters these days.
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This problem is likely to be encountered often by decision makers wishing to assess the methodological quality of published studies.
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She also outlined another misconception that could explain the suspicion research nurses often encounter among other nurses.
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For example, salespeople of media space in newspapers which are given away free to the public often encounter the following objection.
rarely
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Musicianship of this quality is rarely encountered , and is quite exceptional from anyone's standpoint.
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Bedford had grown up in a town where strangers were rarely encountered .
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One suggestion is that males and females rarely encounter each other.
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It may be noted, however, that disputes among solicitors as to what property belongs to their firm are comparatively rarely encountered .
■ NOUN
difficulty
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If difficulty is encountered , the normal result is that the input is disrupted in various ways.
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Typical among them was the difficulty the Stagirite encountered in his attempt to explain the light emanating from the stars.
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Outline the difficulties that might be encountered when relating Landsat imagery to conventional maps.
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Perhaps the clearest indication of this was the difficulty he encountered in filling the job of finance minister in his new cabinet.
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In the past great difficulty was encountered in persuading chimpanzees raised in zoos to mate successfully.
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Second, the actual difficulties encountered overseas appeared to be of a considerably lower order of intensity than had been feared.
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This case also illustrates the difficulties which can be encountered in carrying out treatment with adolescent self-poisoners.
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It was without precedent in the United States, which explains the difficulties encountered by the preservationists.
opposition
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Even a government with substantial majority support would have encountered the same opposition .
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You've probably never encountered opposition before, because you've deliberately gone after the weak who couldn't fight back.
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They encountered no opposition though Ranulf maintained that he had seen a rider watching them as they crossed the bridge at Dalmeny.
problem
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Our approach has worked satisfactorily for the problems we have encountered to date.
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Various problems can be encountered if this is not the case.
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At home Sean remained a reasonably pleasant child who tended to respond passively to the problems he encountered regarding schoolwork.
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Porter first identifies the problem that will be encountered if one proceeds with portfolio planning without explicit management of these interdependencies.
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And they could be a more powerful and intrusive problem than any you encountered in the corporate infighting of your previous job.
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Further problems were encountered with the lexicon supplied with the second version.
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Then turn them into positives by developing a set of positive answers for the problems you encountered .
resistance
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In recent months, Musharraf has narrowed the focus of his sweeping reform agenda as it encountered resistance from various interest groups.
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But with every initiative, they encountered an undercurrent of resistance .
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Her hands encountered no resistance , but found no way through the fog.
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But his plan encountered resistance as soon as he got home.
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Measures to prevent the competitive liberalization of consumer credit will encounter the heaviest resistance .
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In attempting to implement the new policy via decree, Gordon had encountered strong patient resistance .
situation
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Then they encounter an odd situation .
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Stress and trauma Stress and trauma are encountered both in domestic situations and in the workplace.
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Anticipating extremely high levels of anxiety, the person no longer encounters the original situation of the supermarket.
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Alternatively, encountering the situations we fear most will turn on our stress taps rapidly.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Drivers on the M25 are likely to encounter fog and black ice tonight.
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He encountered the young woman as she was leaving a coffee shop.
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If your dog encounters poison oak, do not pet it until you clean its fur.
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It was rare that she encountered interesting people through her work.
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Many of the children encountered some difficulty in learning the material.
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Matheu's efforts to establish the clinic encountered a number of setbacks.
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The government has encountered strong opposition over its plans to build a new airport.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All three dialed up without encountering any busy signals when tested Thursday morning.
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An attempt by Bandai to break into the game player business has encountered even more problems.
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He was a famous painter once more now, not simply a local eccentric to encounter on the beach.
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It was on that second voyage he encountered the Odonata.
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On the way to town, the soldiers encountered a group of white policemen and shot two of them.
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One encounters a comparatively congenial Schoenberg here.
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Other abbreviations are encountered in some thesauri.
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This, incidentally, could help with the problem encountered earlier of incorporating unusual crimes such as child abuse in the postclassical perspective.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
brief
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Her brief encounter with the Sun had evidently had a bad influence on her.
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Seven years of mutually mediocre diplomacy and unsteady leadership form the backdrop of Clinton's brief twilight encounter with Putin.
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Could you afford a brief encounter ?
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That might explain what Dole is trying to gauge in the brief encounters along the campaign trail.
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Despite his utterances during the brief encounter with Toby, Dominic had actually been surprised to be offered the job.
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He believes Dan infected him during a brief encounter six years before, which Dan only dimly remembers.
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Without that, no talks will ever amount to more than the briefest of encounters .
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Beyond a few exceedingly brief encounters at dances attended by soldiers stationed around Barnard Castle, she apparently never had a romantic association.
casual
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Robyn had two casual heterosexual encounters at this time, both one-night stands after rather drunken parties, both unsatisfactory.
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Each of them is free to have casual encounters outside the strong arms of their love.
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All the same, he appeared a pretty imperious figure on casual encounter .
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However, casual or conspired encounters with the public are infrequent and a primary duty is to deliver court summonses and warrants.
close
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The designer's close encounter of severe illness had a profound influence on his scheme.
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Retired Willcox schoolteacher Joe Duhon has had several close encounters with the Playa, but he keeps going back.
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The pain is severe and no predator would risk a second close encounter with these snakes.
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We also shared a cou-ple of close encounters with danger.
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Bridgend 16, Neath 22 Close encounter .
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In a close encounter last season, Gloucester pipped Northampton by 7 points to 6.
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I've twice had close encounters of a nasty kind with flying lead.
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Desert Orchid and a close encounter of the short kind.
personal
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But this was her first personal encounter with such a craft.
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This was my first personal encounter with Basil Rocke.
previous
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Police officers had spent several weeks scanning videos of their previous encounters to identify trouble makers.
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My previous encounter with Lucia had convinced me that she was an able student.
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She said it had prompted more real conversation between them than she had achieved in all their previous encounters .
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Milling, shut out in his previous encounter with Cal, had four points.
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At that the Barnett contingent, already worked up from their previous encounter , began to hurl stones at the two brothers.
■ VERB
describe
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The field notes describe the encounter thus: A little boy appeared in the doorway.
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Cooley describes how the encounter with the author happens.
remember
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At home, crying, Howley remembered an encounter with a woman who had just run 10 miles.
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It amazed the Comanche, who remembered that encounter for generations.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A bus ride from New York to Miami brings encounters with all kinds of people.
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A chance encounter in a restaurant led to her first movie role.
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He did not appear to remember our encounter last summer and just nodded when we were introduced.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Brooke-Rose's engagement with feminist theory is typical of her encounter with literary theory in general.
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He would be no prettier after this encounter .
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Not all my encounters with the world of academic gamesmanship were so chilly.
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Once before, following another encounter , a brutal and terrifying encounter, she had recognized that.
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Rebelling against him and going their own way would risk another encounter with the deep.
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Then he analyzed tapes of those encounters in an acoustic laboratory at the National Zoo, set up to study bird calls.
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These evinced no embarrassment at the encounter .
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This, my first encounter with real racism came as a shock.